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 Portal
frameworks provide enterprises with
a simple yet effective mechanism
for delivering personalized content
and applications to their employees,
suppliers and customers. They offer
a single point of access to the
enterprise's resources and ease
the administration of IT services,
thereby making the enterprise more
agile.
- Most high value portlets
– are an extension of existing
systems and applications
– combine functionality
from disparate systems
- Building high value portlets
is
– time consuming and expensive
– requires skilled programmers
and domain experts
Clickmarks’ patented Presentation
Level Integration™ (PLI) technology
allows rapid and inexpensive integration
of components of different business
systems.
How PLI lowers the Portlet Creation
Barrier
- Build portlets by non-invasively
integrating and extending existing
applications
- Very low time and capital investment
- Reduction of project risk
JCA Streamlines Integration
Clickmarks PLI technology already
paved a way for integration, now,
using the JCA (Java Connector Architecture),
legacy application integration are
quickly being redefined in the following
ways:
- The Java
Connector Architecture (JCA)
is a way to access Enterprise
Information Systems (EIS) from
a J2EE environment using a standard
API.
- Connecting to systems, invoking
functions, and passing data is
all done in a standard way for
all legacy systems. Thus, once
you have implemented an integration
point with one enterprise system
using JCA, others become easier
to implement.
- JCA wizards allow all the functions
exposed by a particular EIS to
be visually navigated and configured.
Enabling SOA with Standards Support
As the industry moves to implementing
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA),
Clickmarks, through is implementation
of industry standards, provides
powerful tools to create the building
blocks of SOA. Clickmarks’
support of the web services, JSR-168
and WSRP
protocols ensures that any
application created using Clickmarks
can be consumed as a standard service
by portals or other applications.
Developers are provided the ability
to reuse portlets in any portal
framework across the intranet or
internet.
Workflow Management
Clickmarks’ visual application
design tool allows the developer
to specify complex workflows that
tie together and add business logic
between integration points. Using
this capability, developers can
take their enterprise’s existing
business processes – which
may involve complex interaction
with many different systems and
between different people –
and streamline them, building composite
applications that lower the time
and cost associated with everyday
tasks.
Key Application Areas
- Workflow and Business Process
Automation
- Information Processing
- Content Retrieval and Collection
– Extract content from databases,
websites and non-web applications
– Retrieve information from
multiple sources, combine and
present in a unified view
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